No PyPI search for 3.x compatible packages

Francesco Bochicchio bieffe62 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 10:11:24 EDT 2009


On 30 Lug, 01:55, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thun... at gmail.com> wrote:
>    There appears to be no way to search PyPI for packages that are
> compatible with Python 3.x. There are classifiers for 'Programming
> Language' including 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3' but that seems
> to be for implementation language since there are so many packages that
> specify C. There are a total of 109 packages classified with Python ::
> [3, 3.0, 3.1] out of a total of 4829 packages.http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=214&c=533
>
>    The search box appears to search for any word entered so a search
> like "xml 3.0" or "xml AND 3.0" does not help.
>
>    Some packages include version information in the Py Version column of
> their download lists or embedded in the download file names. Projects
> are often constrained to a particular set of Python versions so need to
> choose packages that will work with those versions. It would be helpful
> if PyPI made this information more visible and searchable.
>
>    Neil

Are you sure? I note that for example pygtk has as language tags both
C and python. So maybe a C extension
for python3 would have both C and python 3 as language tags.

I suspect that the 109 packages you found are the only ones obf the
4829 which works with python3 (but I hope
to be wrong ).

Ciao
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FB




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